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Oh No! That One Was Shiny!

Has it ever been you're misfortune to accidentally Soft Reset away a shiny Pokemon that you've been trying extremely hard to get? Be it from getting into the habit of pressing either A+B+Start+Select or L+R+Start+Select as soon as you encounter the pokemon or from just not paying good enough attention? Or, have you been fortunate enough to run into a wild shiny but at the time you did not know what it was or realize that it was shiny?

By the way I'm just making this thread out of curiosity because I've been doing a lot of SRing lately and really hope that the former does not happen to me. I just wanna know if its a very common error to make because I (unfortunately) could see myself possibly doing it.

Sring takes too much time. Especailly on the diamon/pearl/platinum games cause the starting sequence TAKES FOREVER. but if you are going for groudon shouldnt be long if you are playing a gameboy advance/SP. But if your using a Ds the starting sequence takes about 5-10 seconds longer..

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The only Shiny I ever saw and even caught myself was a Female Nidoran. Way back in LeafGreen. So no, I haven't accidentally ran from a Shiny. But it would really suck if it happened to me.

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in leafgreen, i found a shiny chansey and i was jumping all over the place saying, "holy s***! i found a shiny chansey!" i threw a ball...one shake...no, two shakes... darn it got out! it watches carefully. i throw a ball...one shake...it gets out. wild chansey fled. ........i was so angry after that

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i fainted a shiny zigzagoon on my sapphire game once cuz my pokemon were too stron i found it north of rustuboro and i had saw it but accidentall fainted it cuz of a critical hit of all the rotten luck a critical hit to faint one of the only shiny pokemon i have ever found in the wild

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Only had one shiny in my games and that was a shiny krikitune. It dead

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Around a week or so ago, I was soft resetting in front of the Member Card Darkrai on Platinum while I was reading something online, and the shiny came up, but I accidentally soft resetted it away without thinking... oh the shame.

When I was playing though Platinum, I came across a shiny Gastrodon right when I was out of Pokeballs (and, as a matter of fact, just running to a town to get them :U).

When I first chained Kirlia, I found a shiny at a chain of three, but got so excited that I accidentally killed it. :U

The other day, I went into my old Silver for no reason (the internal battery was still alive, surprisingly), and found a shiny Rattata, but right as I was about to catch it, the batteries in the Game Boy died. That was just plain' unlucky. :O

The first time I played through Sapphire, I found a shiny Lunatone, but killed it before realizing that it was shiny.

I've also had many fails with the Poke Radar, accidentally missing shiny patches and/or being dumb and forgetting to put on Repel when heading to the patches. Or having ARTICUNO COME UP WHEN I'M CHAINING MALE NIDORAN. Anyway, that's pretty much everything. XD

I was EV training a while back on my Pearl game, and didn't have any pokeballs of any kind, and I ran into a Shiny Fearow. All I could do is say screw it, and faint the thing for the speed EV's.

I had found a shiny Spearrow on my leafgreen, and I didn't have any pokeballs either.

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Beneath this heart shaped moon.
Sometimes, the line can seem blurred
To even those of good.
And now, even once good friends
have turned against each other.
Yet there seems to be, no escape...(no escape... no escape...)
Will you run away? Will you run away,
To the castle ruins of yesterday?
What can become, of this hopeless endeavor you seek?
What hope can it bring?
Will you run and hide, or stand tall and fight
Against all that you have ever believed in?
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Sring takes too much time. Especailly on the diamon/pearl/platinum games cause the starting sequence TAKES FOREVER. but if you are going for groudon shouldnt be long if you are playing a gameboy advance/SP. But if your using a Ds the starting sequence takes about 5-10 seconds longer..

Around a week or so ago, I was soft resetting in front of the Member Card Darkrai on Platinum while I was reading something online, and the shiny came up, but I accidentally soft resetted it away without thinking... oh the shame.

When I was playing though Platinum, I came across a shiny Gastrodon right when I was out of Pokeballs (and, as a matter of fact, just running to a town to get them :U).

When I first chained Kirlia, I found a shiny at a chain of three, but got so excited that I accidentally killed it. :U

The other day, I went into my old Silver for no reason (the internal battery was still alive, surprisingly), and found a shiny Rattata, but right as I was about to catch it, the batteries in the Game Boy died. That was just plain' unlucky. :O

The first time I played through Sapphire, I found a shiny Lunatone, but killed it before realizing that it was shiny.

I've also had many fails with the Poke Radar, accidentally missing shiny patches and/or being dumb and forgetting to put on Repel when heading to the patches. Or having ARTICUNO COME UP WHEN I'M CHAINING MALE NIDORAN. Anyway, that's pretty much everything. XD

Wow! You have both great luck and terrible luck at the same time. You are lucky enough to run into shinies but everytime you do whatever can go wrong seems to.

You mean, like running into a shiny Giratina by chance, and having it kill itself with struggle because you didn't have a Master Ball or a status inflicting move like Thunder Wave to compensate? Uh, yeah.